Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS): management

Evidence-based neurology checklist on landau-kleffner syndrome (lks): management: Electroencephalogram (EEG) The EEG shows repetitive spikes and spikes and slow waves These are unilateral, bilateral, or multifocal Other investigations Treatment AEDs which may worsen seizures

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

  • The EEG shows repetitive spikes and spikes and slow waves
  • These are unilateral, bilateral, or multifocal

Other investigations

Treatment

AEDs which may worsen seizures

References

  1. Appleton RE. The Landau-Kleffner syndrome. Arch Dis Child 1995; 72:386–387.
  2. Nieuwenhuis L, Nicolai J. The pathophysiological mechanisms of cognitive and behavioral disturbances in children with Landau-Kleffner syndrome or epilepsy with continuous spike-and-waves during slow-wave sleep. Seizure 2006; 15:249-258.
  3. Cole AJ, Andermann F, Taylor L, et al. The Landau-Kleffner syndrome of acquired epileptic aphasia: Unusual clinical outcome, surgical experience, and absence of encephalitis. Neurology 1988; 38:31-38.
  4. Santos LH, Antoniuk A, Rodrigues M, Bruno S, Bruck I. Landau-Kleffner syndrome: study of four cases. Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2002; 60:239-241.
  5. Marescaux C, Hirsch E, Finck S, et al. Landau-Kleffner syndrome: a pharmacologic study of five cases. Epilepsia 1990; 31:768-777.

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